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	<p>Summary: This document provides credits and legal information about both the server and client applications.</p>
	<h1>Simple Windows Parallel Scheduler</h1>
	<h1>Credits</h1>
	<h2>Version 0.80</h2>
	<p>I, Joe Schulman, am the sole contributor to this version.  With the exception of borrowed Paint.NET icons, I wrote all of the source code for this project.</p>
	<h2>Technology</h2>
	<p>The .NET framework made it very easy to get this code up and running. From easy, 
		intuitive process management, threadding, and communication (WCF rocks!), I know 
		that my productivity was increased in C#.&nbsp; Compared to Java, I would say 
		productivity was at least double.</p>
	<h1>Background</h1>
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	This project was started to support my honors thesis at the <a href="http://www.unl.edu">University of Nebraska--Lincoln</a>.  I worked with Dr. <a href="http://cse.unl.edu/~myra/">Myra Cohen</a> in the <a href="http://esquared.unl.edu/">Esquared lab</a> in the <a href="http://cse.unl.edu/">Computer Science and Engineering 
		Department</a>.
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	My honors thesis needed to run 150 GUI tests under 500 configurations.  Each run of the 150 gui tests took a little more than an hour, and we were looking at a month of computation just to complete one experiment.  We decided to run the different configurations in parallel on virtual 
		PCs.  I soon realized how difficult it was to manually start and stop experiments on virtual 
		PCs.  So, like any lazy programmer, I looked for existing code to do the work for me.
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	I only came across one project, Condor, that did what I needed.  However, Condor is designed for "real" parallel computing projects and seemed like overkill for what I needed.  
		Rather than spend much effort getting Condor set up, I wrote the code myself.
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	This code is intentionally aimed at the simple case -- that's all I needed.  If you are looking for advanced scheduling, batch management, multiple-platforms, etc., look elsewhere.  This project does one thing, and I believe it does so moderately well: run batches in parallel on Windows machines.
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	<h1>License</h1>
	<h2>Source code and binary</h2>
	<p>The license for this application binary and source code is <b>Microsoft Public License (Ms-Pl)</b>. See <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ms-pl.html">http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ms-pl.html</a> for more details.</p>
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1. Definitions
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same meaning here as under U.S. copyright law.
A "contribution" is the original software, or any additions or changes to the software.
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	<h2>Icons</h2>
	<p>The icons are taken from the <a href="http://www.getpaint.net /">Paint.NET</a> application.  They are covered by the <b>Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5</b>.  See <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/</a> for more details.</p>
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